End poverty in all its forms everywhere
Targets for to reach to achieve this goal include eradicating extreme poverty; reducing the proportion of people living in poverty; implementing nationally appropriate social protection systems and measures; ensuring all have equal rights to economic resources, basic services, and ownership and control over technology and financial services; building the resilience of the poor and vulnerable and reduce exposure and vulnerability to climate-related extreme events; ensuring significant mobilization of resources to developing countries to implement programs and policies to end poverty in all its dimensions; and, creating sound policy frameworks at national, regional and international levels. Details about each target for Sustainable Development Goal 1 can be found below.
Learn more about Penn State’s progress on all the Sustainable Development Goals on the SDG Progress page.
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Supporting Evidence
No, Penn State does not have a specific published target. However, Penn State routinely tracks the opportunity gaps that are seen in success statistics between non-advantaged populations and the majority. This includes low-income students as well as first generation students and underrepresented minority students. Penn State believes in equitable outcomes, which would mean the elimination of these gaps.
Yes, Penn State provides multiple food and transportation services for students of low income backgrounds. The Lion’s Pantry is a student-run food bank at Penn State University Park that provides free food and toiletries to students facing food insecurity. Established in 2014, it aims to combat hunger, raise awareness about student poverty, and reduce stigma around food insecurity. There are also Cub Pantries at Penn State satellite campuses, which are the branch equivalents of the Lion’s Pantry. Penn State also has an exclusive ride sharing program called RideOn to help students, faculty, and staff find rides to campus. Finally, Penn State Legal Services is a resource for all students to gain advice, referrals, document drafting, and other legal services.
Yes, Penn State has programs to help students from low-income groups to complete their studies. A University-wide initiative, called “Achieve Penn State,” helps students and families by removing obstacles to graduation, lowering debt, and shortening time to degree. Part of this initiative is “Complete Penn State,” which provides seniors facing financial obstacles with academic and financial resources to help them complete their degree. The Penn State Chaiken Student Center for Success also provides financial, academic, career, and mentorship opportunities for first-generation and liberal arts students to help complete their studies. The Comprehensive Studies Program at Penn State provides access and retention support to Pennsylvania students with high academic potential, meeting economic criteria, and often being first-generation college students. The university also participates in various Federal TRIO Programs, which assist low-income, first-generation, and disabled individuals from middle school through post-baccalaureate education. Additionally, the Penn State Millennium Scholars Program supports academically strong high school seniors aiming for doctoral degrees in science or engineering, promoting diversity in research fields.
The programs within Achieve Penn State are designed to help remove obstacles undergraduates may face on the path to a Penn State degree. These programs include:
- Pathway to Success: Summer Start (PaSSS), which helps entering students to make the transition to Penn State during the summer before their first year.
- Student Transitional Experiences Program (STEP), which supports students making the junior-year transition to the University Park campus from another Penn State campus.
- The Mentoring Program within the Sokolov-Miller Family Financial and Life Skills Center, which pairs students with a financial literacy mentor.
- RaiseMe, which enables high school students to earn micro-scholarships toward their Penn State education.
- Complete Penn State, within the Student Success Center, connects students to critical and timely resources as they strive towards completing the final requirements of their Penn State degree.
- Smart Track to Success, which supports incoming World Campus students in becoming engaged members of the World Campus community.
Penn State does not provide resources specifically for financially and socially sustainable businesses. Any student with a start-up idea can be supported through a program at Penn State called the Launch Box. This provides mentoring, training, and access to university facilities to Students with a viable business idea and can encourage start-ups that are both socially and financially responsible. Additionally, any community member can gain access to the Launch Box resources above if they have a viable business idea.
Yes, Invent Penn State provides mentoring and financial support to community members if they have a viable business idea.
connects students, researchers, entrepreneurs, local startups, industry partners, investors and community partners to the people, programs, and resources that turn ideas into real-world impact. Invent Penn State unites university research, entrepreneurial spirit, and community collaboration to fuel innovation and strengthen Pennsylvania’s economy.
Invest Penn State supports the following programs:
- The Brand Academy: Supports student-athletes to leverage their personal brand for entrepreneurial success and endorsement opportunities.
- Inc.U Competition: Finalist Pitch Event & How You’ll Be Judged Undergraduate pitch competition where student startups compete for $30,000 in investment dollars for their companies.
- LaunchBox & Innovation Network: No-cost coworking space, accelerator programs, and business and legal advice for entrepreneurs.
- NSF I-Corps: I-Corps provides real-world, hands-on training on how to successfully incorporate innovations into successful products.
- Penn State Alumni Entrepreneurs Network: Empowers the entrepreneurial spirit among Penn State alumni.
- Startup Leadership Network: Matches Penn State tech startups with seasoned executives who can accelerate their market entry.
- Summer Founders Program: Penn State teams can win $15,000 to work on their startup, social good, or nonprofit idea for the summer
Yes, there are multiple ways that Penn State tries to improve access to basic services for all. For example:
- Sanitary products are free on all campuses.
- There are food pantries across the Penn State Campuses to provide food to food insecure students.
- There are free health resources for students on campus, such as Counseling and Psychological Services and Sexual and Reproductive Services.
- There is the Food and Housing Security Task Force, which aims to mitigate food and housing insecurity for low-income students.
Penn State research efforts have been used to help mitigate poverty at the local level. For instance, the Penn State Social Science Research Institute conducts research to make Food Banks more efficient to increase access to food to communities that need it. Additionally, Penn State provides support and connects students with resources and services to help them stay safe, healthy, and focused. The Basic Needs | Penn State Student Affairs site offers connections to a wealth of resources.
About this SDG
Targets & Indicators
Target 1.1: By 2030, eradicate extreme poverty for all people everywhere, currently measured as people living on less than $1.25 a day
- Indicator 1.1.1: Proportion of the population living below the international poverty line by sex, age, employment status and geographic location (urban/rural)
Target 1.2: By 2030, reduce at least by half the proportion of men, women and children of all ages living in poverty in all its dimensions according to national definitions
- Indicator 1.2.1: Proportion of population living below the national poverty line, by sex and age
- Indicator 1.2.2: Proportion of men, women and children of all ages living in poverty in all its dimensions according to national definitions
Target 1.3: Implement nationally appropriate social protection systems and measures for all, including floors, and by 2030 achieve substantial coverage of the poor and the vulnerable
- Indicator 1.3.1: Proportion of population covered by social protection floors/systems, by sex, distinguishing children, unemployed persons, older persons, persons with disabilities, pregnant women, newborns, work-injury victims and the poor and the vulnerable
Target 1.4: By 2030, ensure that all men and women, in particular the poor and the vulnerable, have equal rights to economic resources, as well as access to basic services, ownership and control over land and other forms of property, inheritance, natural resources, appropriate new technology and financial services, including microfinance
- Indicator 1.4.1: Proportion of population living in households with access to basic services
- Indicator 1.4.2: Proportion of total adult population with secure tenure rights to land, (a) with legally recognized documentation, and (b) who perceive their rights to land as secure, by sex and type of tenure
Target 1.5: By 2030, build the resilience of the poor and those in vulnerable situations and reduce their exposure and vulnerability to climate-related extreme events and other economic, social and environmental shocks and disasters
- Indicator 1.5.1: Number of deaths, missing persons and directly affected persons attributed to disasters per 100,000 population
- Indicator 1.5.2: Direct economic loss attributed to disasters in relation to global gross domestic product (GDP)
- Indicator 1.5.3: Number of countries that adopt and implement national disaster risk reduction strategies in line with the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015–2030
- Indicator 1.5.4: Proportion of local governments that adopt and implement local disaster risk reduction strategies in line with national disaster risk reduction strategies
Target 1.a: Ensure significant mobilization of resources from a variety of sources, including through enhanced development cooperation, in order to provide adequate and predictable means for developing countries, in particular least developed countries, to implement programmes and policies to end poverty in all its dimensions
- Indicator 1.a.1: Total official development assistance grants from all donors that focus on poverty reduction as a share of the recipient country’s gross national income
- Indicator 1.a.2: Proportion of total government spending on essential services (education, health and social protection)
Target 1.b: Create sound policy frameworks at the national, regional and international levels, based on pro-poor and gender-sensitive development strategies, to support accelerated investment in poverty eradication actions
- Indicator 1.b.1: Pro-poor public social spending
